Open-source media player 's ability to play back just about any file I can throw at it has made me a fan, but its geeky feel and utilitarian interface can be a turnoff. Enter GOM Media Player (free). It's a full-featured video player that can handle almost anything, and looks good doing it.
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Think your enterprise has a big data problem? Consider New York City: With a population of 8.2 million, it is far-and-away the largest city in the U.S. And it generates data--a lot of data--most of it in highly fragmented silos contained within the many municipal agencies and departments that keep the Big Apple running.
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Jerome Kerviel, a former trader at Socit Gnrale, who was sentenced to three years in prison in 2010 after being convicted of unauthorised computer use, forgery and breach of trust, has lost his appeal.
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The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Stoke-on-Trent City Council £120,000 for failing to provide its legal department with encryption software, where a solicitor sent emails to the wrong address.
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When it comes to analyzing big data, software packages such as Hadoop or the R statistical language come readily to mind. But at least one company, AppNexus, also relies on the Python programming language to help conduct heavy-duty data analysis.
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The UK government has largely shunned recommendations put forward by the House of Lords Communications Committee, following a controversial inquiry that warned of a closed and anti-competitive broadband infrastructure being created.
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In addition to unveiling a slew of new hardware on Tuesday, Apple also announced version 3 of iBooks, its reading app for the iPad and iPhone. We'll have a full review soon, but in the meantime, here are some early impressions from our initial hands-on experience with the app.
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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have remedied a cryptographic weakness in their email systems that could allow an attacker to create a spoofed message that passes a mathematical security verification.
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Telstra has purchased Adam Internet, the last independent ISP of South Australia, the telco confirmed this morning. The surprise deal is subject to approval by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
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Microsoft is hosting a media event tomorrow to mark the , and the Surface RT tablet. The initial reviews of the Surface RT have had high praise for the quality and construction of the tablet hardware, but almost universally reviewers are concerned with the lack of apps for Windows RT. Two apps in particular, though, stand out as giant voids in the ecosystem: Facebook and Twitter.
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Sprint Nextel's deployment of its ambitious Network Vision infrastructure, which includes the gradual rollout of 4G LTE technology, is about three months behind schedule due to several factors, the company said during its financial results call on Thursday.
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Microsoft introduced Windows 8 to the public Thursday, showcasing the touchable and intuitive operating system on a slew of desktops, laptops, and tablets from the company's OEM partners. (Related: )
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Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are in a state of transition when it comes to juggling network needs with mobile device use. A recent on small-business mobility found that more than three-quarters of IT managers have deployed to their workforce, and more than half have deployed tablets. However, many employees prefer using their own devices: Almost 90% of IT managers recognized that employees are using personal devices for work.
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A quote in the story, "Russian coder puts Microsoft botnet accusation behind him," posted to the wire on Tuesday, has been modified after the source said he misspoke in an email. The word "there" has been deleted from the first sentence of the quote.
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Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor, the third largest enterprise applications vendor in the market, has confirmed that he has no plans to develop applications for Microsoft's new Windows 8 Surface tablet.
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Elasticity -- the ability to ramp up or down computing resources depending on need -- is one of the key benefits of cloud computing. Not being shackled to their own, in-house hardware means organisations can dial up the amount of resources they need to crunch big data sets, run their Web presence during spikes and troughs in demand and process periodic jobs without needing the internal resources necessary to cope with peak demand.
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Due to a reporting error, the story "Samsung says ITU ruling in favor of Apple would mean less choice, higher prices," which ran Wednesday, used the wrong acronym in the headline and the first paragraph. The ruling was from the ITC.
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The release of may not have been as tidy as Mozilla would have liked it to be thanks to the that was discovered soon afterwards, but apparently that didn't have much of an effect on uptake of the new browser.
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Microsoft's newly launched Surface tablet attracted hundreds of buyers at a Beijing electronics store at midnight Friday morning, with customers stating they had high hopes the device could offer an innovative user experience over rival tablets including Apple's iPad.
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The app store--that staple of consumer tablets and smartphones--is making a transition to the business market. SAP and the University of Sydney are two organisations that have discovered security and other benefits to setting up internal app stores to manage software installed to their networks' devices.
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Even though the unveiling of a smaller version of the iPad was heading into Tuesday's media event, Apple still managed to surprise more than a few people with the --though perhaps in ways that not everyone was hoping for.
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Loren Brichter created Tweetie, the incredible iPhone app that eventually became the official Twitter app. He invented pull-to-refresh. And if you had asked me what kind of app he might release as his long-awaited follow-up to Tweetie, boy, I never would have guessed. Now I know the answer, and I'm as pleased with the result as I am surprised by it: It's Letterpress, a word game with a healthy serving of strategy to go along with it. It works on the iPhone and the iPad, and it's awesome.
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